Link PICCs: little girl searches for match, boy urges others to join National Registry, blood shortages, and billions spent by healthcare lobbyists
Dec.29, 2009 in
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NPR looks at 4-year-old Maya Chamberlin‘s fight against a rare blood disease and the search for a suitable bone marrow donor.
The week between Christmas and New Year’s is the single hardest week to get donations, according to the United Blood Services. The need for blood doesn’t take the holidays off.
This Christmas aplastic anemia survivor A.J. Revera urges others to join the National Marrow Donor Registry.
In the video below PBS ‘NewsHour’ explores the healthcare lobbying effort going on in Washington D.C.,the oodles of money spent and whose voice gets heard.
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